will also include commentary from author and journalist mark harris sunday at 4 p.m. eastern, part of american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> c-span to provide live coverage of just senate floor proceedings and key public policy events. and every weekend booktv, now for 15 years the only television network devoted to nonfiction books and authors. c-span2, created by the cable tv industry and brought to you as a public service by your local cable or satellite provider. watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> author maya angelou digested at the age of 86 at her home in winston-salem, north carolina. she was the recipient of the pulitzer prize, national medal of arts, three grammy awards and the presidential medal of freedom. in 2002, she spoke at the "l.a. times" book festival about her memoir, "a song flung up to heaven." this is an hour. >> our next author is a noted poet, writer, civil rights -- [cheers and applause] teacher, director who was raised in arkansas, learned early in life about the healing power of language, literature and